Bead-roll

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Among Catholic priests, a bead-roll was a list or catalog of people to be specially prayed for.

A bead-roll, or bead-row, may also be any list or catalog of names, or a pedigree. The term is also used for the beads of a rosary.

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  1. This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain. [1]
  2. "Bead-roll". Oxford English Dictionary". URL accessed 2006-03-06.
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